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Regional Economic growth and accessibility: The case of the Netherlands

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  • Willem Johannes Maria Heijman
  • Cornelis Martijn Van der Heide
  • Raymond J.G.M. Florax
  • Marc E. Loman

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Shift-share is a popular, relatively easy to apply, tool in spatial analysis. Upon its initial development and use in the 1970s the literature has shown that serious drawbacks of the shift-share technique should be noted (e.g., lack of theoretical basis, sensitivity to level of aggregation). But several solutions have been proposed, and besides, when a technique is simple and apparently useful, it will be both widely used and heavily criticized. The aim of this paper was to apply a shift- share analysis for the labour volume and value added. This was done for 40 so-called COROP-regions in the Netherlands over several subperiods of the most recent decades (1973-1993). It was shown that the development over time of the three shift-share effects for labour volume and value added were much the same. This was not only shown by means of a Geographic Information System but also statistically proved. Other relationships between the outcomes of the shift-share analysis and a few, more or less, economic variables were investigated as well. And lastly, an interesting aspect was the course of the regional growth of value added and employment over time. This development was illustrated by using a concentration-coefficient.

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  • Willem Johannes Maria Heijman & Cornelis Martijn Van der Heide & Raymond J.G.M. Florax & Marc E. Loman, 1998. "Regional Economic growth and accessibility: The case of the Netherlands," ERSA conference papers ersa98p436, European Regional Science Association.
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    1. Evans, Garen K., 2008. "Spatial Shift-Share Analysis of the Leisure and Hospitality Sector on the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina," 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas 6744, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.

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